Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:27:07PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: >> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hello debian-legal. >> > >> > I don't know why, but Brian has been bothering me about claiming the >> > QPL is non-free. I agree with the emacs thing, and am working on a >> > solution to it when time permits, and upstream has also agreed to it in >> > principle, so this should be solved before the now imminent (whatever >> > this means for debian release cycle :) sarge release. >> >> Great > > Another question about this, if i am to remove these emacs files, is it > ok to remove them only from the binary package, or do they need to be > kicked out of the source tarball also.
In the *long* run non-free stuff needs to be removed from the source tarball. However, since we believe that upstream wants to license the files under a DFSG-free license, and there aren't *that* many changes necessary to make the QPL DFSG-free, I don't see any reason to take such a drastic step immediately. -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
